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The article focuses on the Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) training for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) military training. It discusses the possibility of how USAF pilots may not be ready for aircraft tactics, operators survived more in combat after attending these sessions, training from live flying more profitable and inculcating electronic cyber warfare effects.

The article focuses on problem of resource allocation faced by the Afghanistan Air Force and improving Resource Management within the force. It mentions the Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense (MoD) is responsible for functions necessary to ensure operational readiness for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA); and impact of political corruption on the resource allocation process. It also mentions need for making changes in Afghanistan's financial and procurement processes for reducing corruption.

The article offers the author's insights on the fifth generation of combat fighter aircraft pilots in the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Topics mentioned include the cost for the needed combat capability, the history and status of the F-35 and F-22 program, and the measuring of the combat capability where less time on the ground means more time in fighting. It also mentioned the ratio of crew pilot and aircrafts in a fighter squadron and the suggestion to use the original program.

Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 3002.01E, Personnel Recovery in the Department of Defense, highlights personnel recovery (PR) as one of the DOD's highest priorities. As an Air Force core function, PR has experienced tremendous success, having performed 9,000 joint/multinational combat saves in the last two years and having flown a total of 15,750 sorties since 11 September 2001. Despite this admirable record, the author contends that the declining readiness of aircraft and equipment as well as chronic staffing shortages prevents Air Force rescue from meeting the requirements of combatant commanders around the globe. To halt rescue's decline, a numbered Air Force must represent this core function, thereby ensuring strong advocacy and adequate resources for this lifesaving, DOD-mandated function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on identified Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) by the Congress and senior defense officials as a means of responding to future threats to U.S. space systems. The ORS focus includes the ability to launch, activate and employ low-cost, militarily useful satellites to provide surge capability, reconstitute or augment existing constellations, or provide timely availability of tailored or new capabilities.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Fit (and Ready) to Fight: Strengthening Combat Readiness through Controlled-Aggression Training," by Nickolas Stewart in the Summer 2007 issue.

The article focuses on the significance of strengthening combat readiness through controlled-aggression training in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force is training its personnel well in the Law of Armed Conflict, equips them properly and ensures their firearm proficiency. Defense training is considered to be the natural counterpart to the Air Force's Fit to Fight program. Mixed martial arts (MMA) prescribes drills to lower demonstrations and sparring matches.